Divine command theory and psychopathy
I advance a novel challenge for Divine Command Theory based on the existence of psychopaths. The challenge, in a nutshell, is that Divine Command Theory has the implausible implication that psychopaths have no moral obligations and hence their evil acts, no matter how evil, are morally permissible....
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[2020]
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Religious studies
Year: 2020, Volume: 56, Issue: 4, Pages: 542-557 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Will of God
/ Moral act
/ Psychopathology
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RelBib Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism NBC Doctrine of God NBE Anthropology |
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